{"id":438393,"date":"2026-05-12T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/438393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:34:09","slug":"about-8000-kamloops-households-without-water-6-schools-closed-after-water-main-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/438393\/","title":{"rendered":"About 8,000 Kamloops households without water, 6 schools closed after water main break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>About 8,000 households in Kamloops, B.C., are without water as crews work to repair a water main break near the city&#8217;s downtown. <\/p>\n<p>The city says crews have identified the break along River Street, and that water is cut off for people living east of the site, including in the neighbourhoods of Rose Hill, Barnhartvale, Juniper Ridge, Dallas and Campbell Creek.<\/p>\n<p>The Kamloops Thompson School District has also closed six schools Tuesday that are without water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re putting people into an uncomfortable situation for a short term,\u201d said Joe Luison, City of Kamloops civic operations assistant director and public works divisional manager.<\/p>\n<p>He said the water needs to be shut off while crews repair the break.<\/p>\n<p>The city identified the issue on Monday and told residents to conserve water. However, Luison said people were using more water than expected and the city had to shut it off to prevent the reservoirs from being drained, which could potentially contaminate the water supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Orange traffic sign sits on a partially flooded roadway.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778614449_465_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5297268344938404\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Water pools on River Street near where City of Kamloops crews are working on a water main break on Tuesday. (Shelley Joyce\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>The closed schools include the Dallas, R.L. Clemitson, Ralph Bell, Juniper Ridge, and Marion Schilling elementary schools, as well as Valleyview Secondary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s inconvenient for families, but not an emergency for us,\u201d said school district superintendent Mike St. John.<\/p>\n<p>He said they will have staff on site to ensure students who arrived for school have supervision until parents or guardians are able to pick them up.<\/p>\n<p>The city says it will have trucks with non-potable water at six locations in the affected areas so people can continue to use toilets.\u00a0It is also working with Kamloops Fire Rescue to ensure there are water tenders on standby, in case a fire breaks out while supply is cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Luison said he hopes crews will have the break repaired and the water turned back on by the end of Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-438393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}